Our Tweets
July 4, 2009 6:13 AM
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I decided to try wearing "gloved" socks. Should I be concerned if the two smallest toes don't quite fill their respective "fingers"? |
July 4, 2009 5:56 AM
| found the geocache Kenny Clone #8 http://coord.info/GC1CNFN |
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July 3, 2009 8:11 PM
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I am going to benefit others as much as I can: http://flic.kr/p/6sjhn4 |
July 3, 2009 7:46 PM
| I am not going to get angry or think badly about others: http://flic.kr/p/69pAtk |
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July 3, 2009 7:03 PM
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I am going to have kind thoughts towards others: http://flic.kr/p/6wmCWZ |
July 3, 2009 6:39 PM
| to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings: http://flic.kr/p/6r86eA |
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July 3, 2009 6:37 PM
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Apparently there was a major fire at a datacenter in Seattle, knocking out geocaching.com. |
July 3, 2009 5:14 PM
| to expand my heart out to others: http://flic.kr/p/6pVMWn |
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July 3, 2009 4:55 PM
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I am going use all of my energies to develop myself: http://flic.kr/p/6sgBoF |
July 3, 2009 3:52 PM
| I am not going to waste it: http://flic.kr/p/6ud6YC |
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July 3, 2009 2:21 PM
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I have a precious human life: http://flic.kr/p/6q2LH8 |
July 3, 2009 1:28 PM
| I am alive: http://flic.kr/p/6m2n2P |
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July 3, 2009 1:13 PM
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Today I am fortunate to have woken up: http://flic.kr/p/6ioEyP |
July 2, 2009 11:12 PM
| I am going to benefit others as much as I can: http://flic.kr/p/6mEMvg |
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July 2, 2009 10:50 PM
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I am not going to get angry or think badly about others: http://flic.kr/p/6s8FkS |
June 10, 2009 9:30 AM
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A daycare bus ran a red light narrowly avoiding causing a multicar crash. The bus was full!! |
June 10, 2009 9:28 AM
| Today I understand why my Dad chose to drive me to and from school until I drove myself. |
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June 1, 2009 5:43 PM
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McKenzie thinks that she can do what her Daddy does. Sometimes not so much fun for Mom. |
May 30, 2009 9:32 PM
| Maker Faire is a dream. I wish it would be longer. My head is spinning with ideas and amazement at all the intelligent and talented people. |
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May 24, 2009 9:46 PM
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I just tucked Koda in for the night. With a kiss and a hug I gently scolded him and told him to never again scare me the way he did today. |
May 23, 2009 3:42 PM
| Kiet just had me taste his iced coffee....still don't like coffee - ick! |
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May 23, 2009 1:42 PM
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I just got a score of 490 playing Yahtzee!! Whoo Hooo!!!!!!!!!! |
May 15, 2009 2:16 PM
| And the cast comes off!!!! Yeah!!! |
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May 10, 2009 10:53 AM
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Compost 5/10/09 banana peel, bread, paper towel, radishes, radish tops, coffee grounds, strawberries, |
May 9, 2009 10:03 PM
| I asked her what about me and she said that it was a secret-they have to go to get my present for Mothers Day-How lucky am I? |
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May 9, 2009 9:58 PM
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Tonight McKenzie was cuddling with me before bed and she said to me...Daddy and me going to the moon on my rocket. |
May 9, 2009 10:46 AM
| Tuesday 5/5 - What was in the Compost bucket.... Banana peel, strawberry tops, bread, carrots, waffle. |
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May 3, 2009 5:47 PM
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After spending most of the morning cleaning...we went to Omsi and saw the DaVinci exhibit. We all had a lot of fun! |
May 1, 2009 8:25 PM
| Kids, Kenzie and Mommy are missing Daddy. |
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May 1, 2009 8:24 PM
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Ahhhhhhhh Diet Mountain Dew!!! |
June 21, 2009 9:30 PM
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Today is Fathers Day and Mommy, Daddy & I got to spend the morning with Grandpa, Kimmy & Lilien. It was a great day and I love my Daddy!!!! |
June 13, 2009 3:01 PM
| While #geocaching with papa, we saw a whole bunch of bumble bees. ♬ I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee… ♫ |
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June 13, 2009 10:28 AM
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There are times when I have to pull my father to the side at the Farmers Market and say "let's listen" to the musicians. |
June 3, 2009 8:33 AM
| I love growing my own peas and eating them. |
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May 30, 2009 9:40 PM
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Things I didn't like at Maker Faire 2009..Daddy flying on the thing with the wings!!!!! Being too little to try the cool rides. Next year? |
May 30, 2009 9:35 PM
| Things I really liked at Maker Faire 2009....The Muffin Mobiles. The Hula Hoops. The Dying. The Robots. The Lego mobile and much more..... |
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May 22, 2009 7:10 PM
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I had lots of fun playing at US Grant park today with Mommy & Daddy! Swinging, teetering, climbing and sliding OH BOY! |
May 17, 2009 10:09 AM
| Daddy made me Map for my Backpack. http://twitgoo.com/4842 |
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May 13, 2009 8:49 PM
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I like asparagus. http://twitgoo.com/37cy |
May 13, 2009 9:54 AM
| I say, "Say Backpack," and Daddy says, "Knapsack." It makes me laugh when he does this. |
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May 7, 2009 7:18 PM
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Day 594 of our #geocaching streak: McKenzie and I found Carrolls Bluff. http://coord.info/GCMFAT |
May 7, 2009 10:19 AM
| I contributed a cantalope to the class fruit salad today. |
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May 3, 2009 6:53 PM
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Mommy and Daddy took me to Omsi and I really liked playing in the big sand area. The sand tickled my toes. |
May 3, 2009 6:52 PM
| I have learned my right and my left. Mommy and Daddy are so proud of me! |
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April 26, 2009 12:49 PM
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I found my first geocache on my own and before my dad. |
Recent Calliespedia Entries
- Kiet enters UW-Madison - August 31, 1989
- Kiet graduates from UW-Madison - May 14, 1993
- Kiet starts at the Bradley Center - November 30, 1994
- Kiet and Jill marry - September 26, 1998
- Kiet posts his first blog entry - May 14, 2002
- Kiet leaves the Bradley Center - February 1, 2003
- Kiet and Jill travel to Barcelona and Sweden - February 20, 2005
- McKenzie is born - December 30, 2005
- We find our first geocache - April 15, 2006
- The beginning of our geocaching streak - September 22, 2007
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While surfing the web, I came across this interesting mashup, aptly called the Google Maps of time-based information. I have created a timeline of our lives and the many threads that run through it.
- The top band is scaled by the day and shows little snippets of our lives.
- The small band below that still displays those life snippets but is scaled by the year.
Navigation through our timeline is easy. Click and hold the mouse cursor over any of the timebands and move the cursor left or right to pan through the timeline, or double click on any spot on the timeline and the timeline will automatically pan to that location. Each timeband is synchronizes with the other. At the top of the timeline are milestone dates. Clicking on those will move you to that moment on our timeline.
Above our timeline, you can enter a date and jump to that date on the timeline, and you can also go back to today's date.
Below our timeline are some search tools. The first is a filter tool that will display only those moments in time that match the text you type in. The other is a highlight tool that will hightlight those moments in time in one of the four colors you choose that match the text you type in.
Scroll through and explore our timeline . . .
- wedding
- gifts
- vows
- MacBook Pro
- technology
- apple
- Geocaching
- reflections
- moblogging
- iphone
- Travels
- Knitting
- Craft
- Hobby
- video
- mashups
- TED Talks
- electronics
- robotics
- personal
- Website
- McKenzie Katherine Callies
- blogging
- McKenzie
- web_development
- self-improvement
- School
- Tram
- Portland
- MacJournal
- blogger
- rapidweaver
- Flickr
- rapidblog
- flock
- web_browser
- health
- Jill
- writing
- timelines
- Treo_700p
- PHP
- iframe
- habits
- eating
- Simile
- photography
- Flyfishing
- Home
- New Concepts
- Baby Callies
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Our Travel Bugs
For my 35th birthday, Miranda and Kelsey Lukens sent me a bag of toys for trade items. In return, I decided to give them back to them as travel bugs. Check on their progress by clicking on images below:
I created my own geocaching mapping mash-up. I transformed all of our geocaching finds into a georss feed and then overlaid the feed onto on Yahoo! Maps. You have all the interactivity of Yahoo! Maps - zooming, panning and switching map types. Each find is easily marked with an icon which also tells you what kind of cache that find was: traditional, multi, earth, virtual or webcam. When you click on a particular cache, it opens up an informational windows that displays when we found the cache, a link to that cache on geocaching.com and a related picture of our find.
Click here 
to see where we have gone caching.
The Streak
It started on September 22, 2007, and every day since, we have found at least one geocache. Now this streak may seem trivial and mundane, hardly a triumph, but have you ever tried to do a conscious activity consistently for such a long time?
I can’t, and that is why I find this streak so amazing.
It’s also not just about the geocaching. A consequence of our streak has also been at least a photo a day, along with a sentence or two a day in our daily Twitter dispatches.
Despite Jill’s initial desire to put an end of the streak after a year, when the streak was in jeopardy, she became upset at the idea of its demise, so we continue on.
Our Caching Stats
Below you will see our caching stats, courtesy of itsnotaboutthenumbers.com .
| Stat Summary |
| Where I've Cached |
| Caching Milestones |
| Maps |
| Click on the map above for a more detailed and interactive map |
| Charts and Graphs |
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Completion of the Infant-Size Seed Stitch Cable Hat On the...
June 23, 2009 7:57 PM
Completion of the Infant-Size Seed Stitch Cable Hat
On the flight between MSP and PDX, I managed to close the crown of the hat. Bella the Pink Monkey volunteered to model it for me.
Shelter Concept for the Design It Competition Well, here is my...
June 22, 2009 5:10 AM
Shelter Concept for the Design It Competition
Well, here is my first swing at the Guggenheim’s Design It Competition.
The floor space is 10’ by 10’, meeting the competition criteria that the shelter cannot be more than a 100 square feet. However, in order to gain more space, I created an inverted pyramid. The roof is a green garden roof for additional living space, to cool and insulate the shelter and to deal with water run-off. The three walls can open and close together or independently to create a more open feel. The idea is for the shelter to blend in with the environment and reduce the separate between inside and outside.
The bigger question is where to build it. I have been zooming around Google Earth, trying to find the right location. Overlooking the Grand Canyon? Nestled in some coulee in southwest Wisconsin? In the middle of Central Park, New York? On the beaches of Olympic National Park? I really don’t know. I am open to suggestions.
Fourth Cable Completed and the Beginning of the Closing of the...
June 21, 2009 4:33 AM
Fourth Cable Completed and the Beginning of the Closing of the Crown
I ran out of green yarn, so I decided to make the crown of the hat the same color as the brim.
Third Cable Completed Well, I finally managed a few moments to...
June 13, 2009 8:14 PM
Third Cable Completed
Well, I finally managed a few moments to sit down and knit the next cable pattern. Now only one more cable left before closing the crown.
Google Earth and Sketchup
June 13, 2009 12:07 AM
For the last couple of weeks, my interest has shifted back to Google SketchUp, and recently, I have been teaching myself how to integrate my SketchUp models into Google Earth. From Google Earth, you can import an area’s snapshot and its terrain profile into SketchUp. Then inside SketchUp, you can build and place your 3D model on top of this snapshot and then export your 3D model with geographical precision back into Google Earth.
However, for some reason, I haven’t been able to do in on my MacBook Pro. For some reason or another, the Google Earth snapshot and terrain would not appear in SketchUp on my Mac. It would in Windows, but on my Mac, and this really burned me.
I tried everything. Uninstall Google Earth and SketchUp. Reinstall Google Earth and SketchUp. Uninstall Google Earth and SketchUp. Reinstall Google Earth and SketchUp. Run disk permission repairs once, twice, thrice. I even emailed Google for support. I have the Pro versions of both Google Earth and SketchUp and paid a pretty penny for both. However, for those who know me well, it takes the movement of mountains before you get me to break down and ask for help.
After a week of emailing back and forth between me and Google, I decided tonight that I would roll up my sleeves and begin researching a solution to my own problem, and I found it here in the Google Group, Google SketchUp Help.
The problem was an old scripting addition satimage.osax located in /Macintosh HD/Library/ScriptingAdditions/. This little bugger was the culprit. After deleting it and restarting my MacBook Pro, the issue resolved.
Second Cable Completed While waiting to uninstall and reinstall...
June 8, 2009 9:51 PM
Second Cable Completed
While waiting to uninstall and reinstall Google Sketchup Pro on my MacBook Pro, I managed to finish the second cable on this infant seed stitch cable hat, only two more cables before the closing of the crown.
I have been having issues importing Google Earth snapshots and terrains into Sketchup, and the last thing Google told me to do was to uninstall and re-install Sketchup. As part of the uninstall process, I was instructed to repair the disk permissions on my MacBook Pro twice. In the time it took to repair permissions just once, I completed two rounds of knitting.
In the end, the only thing I gained was that I was one cable closer to completing this hat. Sketchup still won’t import from Google Earth.
First Cable Completed While watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith on the...
June 7, 2009 10:16 PM
First Cable Completed
While watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith on the couch, l knitted my way through the first cable. I don’t know if I will have enough green yarn.
Brim Finished After a busy week, especially with attending...
June 7, 2009 6:47 PM
Brim Finished
After a busy week, especially with attending Maker Faire last weekend, I finally was able to sit down and finish the brim for the infant seed stitch cable hat.
McKenzie and her Peas Last year we planted peas in our...
June 7, 2009 10:20 AM
McKenzie and her Peas
Last year we planted peas in our experimental square foot plant, and McKenzie enjoyed them. This year we expanded our garden to two square foot planters and seven pot containers.
Peas, however, remain McKenzie’s favorite. She gobbles them up straight from the plants, making it difficult to get any substanial harvest.
My hope is that McKenzie gains an appreciation for where her food comes from.
Make Your Own Telescope At Maker Faire, I came across a booth...
May 30, 2009 1:05 PM
Make Your Own Telescope
At Maker Faire, I came across a booth for making your own reflecting telescope. Then, in an instant, I am flashbacked to my childhood when I had a strong interest in astronomy and a desire to build my own telescope.
I remember the countless number of hours reading the limited number of books on the subject at the public library.
Though I never built that telescope, I am glad to took the time to explore my interest.
